I Suddenly Forgot How To Breathe

Are you suggesting, Ser Alfred, that my grief drove me to order the decapitation of a child? RHAENYRA TARGARYEN — House of the Dragon (2.02)

faded from all this time

It is repeatedly emphasized in the show that the process of minining kalkite is invasive and risks destroying Ghorman’s biosphere, that the Empire had sought other options before committing to strip mining Ghorman, and that because Ghorman is a prominent Colonies world it would take time to turn public opinion against the Ghor - multiple years! - before they could begin. The entire point is that fascists can’t simply leave well enough alone - to get what they want they will eagerly manufacture consent for genocide. The Empire carefully manages public opinion to spin the massacre as a years-long terrorist uprising being put down, and it’s only Mon Mothma’s speech in the Senate that is able to blow a hole in that narrative.

This is just basic basic basic narrative analysis, but unfortunately we are dealing with Star Wars fans so that is not in their toolbox

House of the Dragon 2.01 x 2.02

Chiron and Grover were the og gaslight gatekeep girlbosses

cassian’s “who are you?” to syril is not a thanos “i don’t even know who you are” moment. it is not “for me, it was tuesday” or “the axe forgets but the tree remembers”. because cassian didn’t ruin syril’s life. syril upended CASSIAN’S life, and ruined his own in the process. syril stumbled on on the case of two dead beat cops that the empire could not care less about and told him so to his face, but he was so desperate to prove himself as a useful cog in the empire’s machine that he went against his superiors to make a big show out of apprehending someone who was only trying to get back to his normal life. and it goes horribly. syril fucked up, and he’s fired, and he can’t make himself blame the empire so he becomes fixated on andor, his enemy, this big bad master criminal who escaped justice and ruined his life. it’s an obsession. and years later, in the midst of his disillusionment and regret watching the violence on ghorman he helped bring about, he sees him. cassian andor. and all this rage and resentment that’s been boiling under his skin for years overtakes any thought of the innocents dying and he throws himself into fighting cassian with a brutality that is obviously personal. and he almost wins, he has the gun pointed at him, when cassian looks at him with genuine confusion and asks “who are you?” and syril breaks. because he’s spent so long convincing himself that andor is out to get him, and now he sees that this was just as futile as everything else he dedicated himself to. because andor did nothing to him. and he has to die with that realization.

cassian had far more reason to hate syril than the other way around, but syril was completely unimportant to him because he chose the rebellion and love over resentment and the empire

Miles Teller - SNL50: The Anniversary Special

There's just something about how the ISB never found Andor.

Syril found Andor, too late.

Dedra found Axis without him.

But they never found Cassian Andor - and they'll never know what that specific failure cost them, will they?

The Rebels don't know who was on Aldhani; the Empire will never know who did the job on Scarif.

Where is Andor? They don't know. But he has friends everywhere.

giving them the medals they deserve for helping in the destruction of the death star

i gotta give otto my 10s in episode two, even tho i hate him, because he was clocking everyone left and right ☠️

aegon? he looked him dead in the eyes and basically told him, "you're the usurper u fucking moron" straight up in his face.

cole's plan? he called it a "prank" ☠️

alicent? he basically told her to shut the fuck up about her sins.

he realized how aegon is too dumb to be a king that he started to miss viserys mid conversation and switched sides for a bit, and was like, "yunno what? this whole thing is a mistake" 😭

the one and only time i fully agree with otto. the man was STRESSED!